Vocabulary: 张之洞：生于末世的一代儒臣
from 安身立命：大时代中的知识人
- 何事x1 | Chapter Rank #1971
- 办得好x1 | Chapter Rank #1972
- 流传x1 | Chapter Rank #1973to spread; to circulate; to hand down
- 说法x2 | Chapter Rank #695way of speaking; wording; formulation; one's version (of events); statement; theory; hypothesis; interpretationto expound Buddhist teachings
- 栋梁x1 | Chapter Rank #1974ridgepole; ridgepole and beams; person able to bear heavy responsibility; mainstay (of organization); pillar (of state)
- 岑春煊x1 | Chapter Rank #1975
- 不学无术x1 | Chapter Rank #1976without learning or skills (idiom); ignorant and incompetent
- 谱x1 | Chapter Rank #1977chart; list; table; register; score (music); spectrum (physics); to set to music
- 权臣x1 | Chapter Rank #1978
- 贪x1 | Chapter Rank #1979to have a voracious desire for; to covet; greedy; corrupt
- 权x1 | Chapter Rank #1980surname Quanauthority; power; right; (literary) to weigh; expedient; temporary
- 恋x1 | Chapter Rank #1981to feel attached to; to long for; to love
- 军x2 | Chapter Rank #696(bound form) army; military
- 私家x1 | Chapter Rank #1982private; privately owned or managed
- 牢牢x1 | Chapter Rank #1983firmly; safely
- 控制x1 | Chapter Rank #1984to control
- 枪杆子x1 | Chapter Rank #1985gun barrel
- 军权x2 | Chapter Rank #697
- 命根子x1 | Chapter Rank #1986see 命根[ming4 gen1]
- 军事x1 | Chapter Rank #1987military affairs; (attributive) military
- 一切x1 | Chapter Rank #1988everything; every; all
- 免谈x1 | Chapter Rank #1989out of the question; pointless to discuss it
- 广东x1 | Chapter Rank #1990see 廣東省|广东省[Guang3 dong1 Sheng3]
- 练x1 | Chapter Rank #1991to practice; to train; to drill; to perfect (one's skill); exercise; (literary) white silk; to boil and scour raw silk
- 新军x1 | Chapter Rank #1992New Armies (modernized Qing armies, trained and equipped according to Western standards, founded after Japan's victory in the First Sino-Japanese War in 1895)
- 新式x1 | Chapter Rank #1993new style; latest type
- 军队x1 | Chapter Rank #1994armed forces; troops; CL:支[zhi1]
- 离任x1 | Chapter Rank #1995to leave office; to leave one's post
- 即x1 | Chapter Rank #1996namely; that is; i.e.; prompt; at once; at present; even if; prompted (by the occasion); to approach; to come into contact; to assume (office); to draw near
- 交x1 | Chapter Rank #1997to hand over; to deliver; to pay (money); to turn over; to make friends; (of lines) to intersect
- 忠诚x1 | Chapter Rank #1998devoted; loyal; fidelity; loyalty
- 一丝x1 | Chapter Rank #1999
- 离心离德x1 | Chapter Rank #2000
- 念头x1 | Chapter Rank #2001thought; idea; intention
- 相比之下x1 | Chapter Rank #2002by comparison
- 暗藏x1 | Chapter Rank #2003to hide; to conceal
- 个人x1 | Chapter Rank #2004individual; personal; oneself
- 野心x1 | Chapter Rank #2005ambition; wild schemes; careerism
- 叛将x1 | Chapter Rank #2006
- 孽x1 | Chapter Rank #2007son born of a concubine; disaster; sin; evil
- 一直x1 | Chapter Rank #2008straight (in a straight line); continuously; always; all the way through
- 不满x1 | Chapter Rank #2009dissatisfied; discontented; resentful; (before a number) to be less than
- 辛亥x2 | Chapter Rank #698forty-eighth year H12 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1971 or 2031; cf 辛亥革命[Xin1 hai4 Ge2 ming4], Xinhai Revolution of 1911
- 前夕x1 | Chapter Rank #2010eve; the day before
- 教给x1 | Chapter Rank #2011
- 文人学士x1 | Chapter Rank #2012
- 统治x2 | Chapter Rank #699to rule (a country); to govern; rule; regime
- 阶层x1 | Chapter Rank #2013social class
- 主义x1 | Chapter Rank #2014-ism; ideology
- 品德x1 | Chapter Rank #2015moral character